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From: "Michael A. Labriola" <labriola@digitalprimates.net>
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Subject: RE: [RT] Design View in FlashBuilder
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:57:18 +0000
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>Just this monday I went to a Flex meeting here in NYC. What I heard is=20
>that the Flex designer will go away  in Flash Builder but what I also=20
>thought I heard is that Adobe will not open source the UI designer. If=20
>that's true I don't get it. They are going to get rid of it why not=20
>just give it away ?

I may not be representing this 100% correctly, however, from my experience =
trying to extend the framework. Design view is more or less hard-coded to a=
 flex framework implementation. If I go and modify UIComponent in my copy o=
f the framework and then try to use design view, it will crash all over the=
 place.

We may want to consider a design tool eventually that is written differentl=
y. However, the current one will not work in the current form for any modif=
ications we make. Why they would or would not donate it is not something I =
can address, but wanted to give you some sense of the reality of the tool